This is a Portrait Of A Polish Noble By Rembrandt Van Rijn Mezzotint Art Print produced by Doubleday Page and Company Gallery of Masterpieces collection in 1905.
Size of entire piece is approximately 20" Tall x 15" Wide and comes with a title page of similar size. The printed area is approximately 12" tall x 10.5" wide.
Mezzotint Art print shows edge & corner wear with some wear on the borders. The Title page is on thinner paper and shows small tears along the edges and some wear.
From the Title Page:
This noble portrait, which is signed by painter and dated 1637, used to be called the portrait of john III. Sobieski, King of Poland, or of Stephan Bathory, King of Poland. It is neither the one nor the other , for in 1637 Sobieski was only twelve or thirteen years old, while Stephan Bathory died in 1586. Dr Bode, howard, has justly pointed out that the man was in all probability a Pole, or at least a Slav, judging not merely by his type and costume, but the mustache, which in those days was seldom thus worn except by Slavs.The picture must be numbered among the masterpieces of the earlier period of Rembrandt's mature power. While we miss the lightening-like freedom of hand, to which he attained late on- when he, as it were, flung paint upon his canvas, and made it suggest as by magic whatever objects he desired, - we find already the perfect comprehension of what he chose to depict, the, the definite knowledge of how much of the thing visible in its entirety the artist cared to see and to reproduce. Here we have not merely the lineaments and form of a man set down, we have an integral vision of him: character, costume, expression, pose, - all in harmony, all concentrated into one consistent, visual image everything omitted that is outside of that, nothing omitted, nothing distorted, that comes with it. the man is sort of barbarian "Hot as ginger, a fractious chili" impatient, a bad sitter one would judge. Each time he came to sit he bought a new stick with him and insisted upon having the former painted over can still be discovered on the canvas. Like Rembrandthimself he loved jewels, gold ornaments, rich furs, and, and costly attire, and he came to the right artist for painting them, One hopes with some confidence that the picture pleases him. Was he capable of appreciating the bold, an at the same time spiritual, handling of the brush? Hardly; but the wonderful effect of light must have struck him, and the transfiguring of his face by it may well have pleased him, and gratified his obvious self-satisfaction. The Picture was acquired by the Empress Catherine II. of Russia, and is happily at home in the collection of which it has ever since formed part.
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